Munif Mulhem is a comrade of the Fourth International who lives in Damascus. A militant in Syria’s Communist Action Party, he was imprisoned for 17 years in the dreadful prison of Palmyra.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
